[Event "Zemitis Memorial email"] [White "Ronneland,Daniel"] [Black "Roques,Pascal"] [Site "ICCF email"] [Round ""] [Annotator "Papp, Petra"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [Date "2015.12.25"] [WhiteElo "2413"] [BlackElo "2377"] [PlyCount "60"] {[%evp 0,60,25,15,28,4,31,37,47,47,64,26,26,26,26,26,55,50,50,50,50,50,50,50,50,50,48,28,28,9,9,-10,-22,-36,32,34,34,34,113,72,45,36,81,-43,-43,-43,-47,-47,-24,-24,-32,-29,-38,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18,-18]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Nc6 8. Be2 e5 $1 9. d5 $1 {Most principled continuation.} Nd4 $1 {The key idea. Black is ready to sacrifice a pawn to activate his g7B. White has to accept the pawn sacrifice. Otherwise, black has a fine position, thanks to the strong d4N.} 10. Nxd4 exd4 11. Qxd4 c6 $1 {Attacks the center and threatens Nxd5.} 12. d6 Re8 $1 {A logical move. Black intends ot take on e4 with the knight.} 13. Qd3 b5 $1 { Everything comes with tempo. The plans are b5-b4 or Be6-c4.} 14. f3 {White has an extra pawn, but black is ready to attack it on d6 and take back the material balance. Still, statically white can hope to some advantage due to better pawn structure, so black should be active and precise with their piece counterplay!} Re6 {Winning back the pawn is the most solid approach. Black quickly equalises in all variations.} 15. Qc2 {Black now has two choices: capture on d6 with a rook or queen. Both moves are acceptable but will lead to totally different types of positions.} (15. Be3 {see the other game in the article: Bosiocic-Ragger} )(15. Bf4 $2 Nh5 $17 )Qxd6 (15... Rxd6 16. Bf4 Rd7 17. Be3 Bb7 18. O-O Qe7 19. Nd1 {(Wang Hao-Aronian, Beijing 2014)} Rad8 $132 {The most natural doubling of the rooks gives Black a decent game.} )16. Bg5 (16. O-O $4 {would be too careless.} Qc5+ 17. Kh1 b4 $19 {[%cal Yc5c2]} )(16. Be3 $6 Nd5 $1 $15 {A nice tactic uses the undefended e3B.} )Qe5 17. Be3 Nd5 $1 {An excellent sacrifice. The point is to open up the e-file. Black has sufficient counterplay for the sacrificed piece.} 18. exd5 cxd5 19. Nd1 d4 20. Bf2 Ba6 $1 21. f4 $1 {The only move to deflect the queen from the dangerous "e" file.} Qxf4 22. O-O Rc8 23. Qd3 Rce8 24. Qf3 $1 Qxf3 25. Bxf3 b4 {Black's active pieces compensated for the material deficit, and now he is already winning back some material. Corr games usually turn out an exciting fight ending in draw. :)} 26. Rc1 Bxf1 27. Kxf1 a5 28. Rc5 Re5 29. Rc7 R5e7 30. Rc5 Re5 1/2-1/2